Oriole Line

One of the officials said: "Your Majesty, the Xuanwu Armor is an ancient sacred object. Its appearance at the ceremony of moving the capital today is a sign of great auspiciousness. I ask your Majesty to hand over this object to the Chenwei masters, so as to explore the holy meaning of heaven."

"Aiqing is right." Zhou Yan said, "This thing is really auspicious, please invite Chenwei into the palace."

The study of prophecy and weft is the prominent study of the Jing Dynasty. It obtains prophecies and cryptic words from atlases, symbols, even astrology, and fate. .After Zhou Yan made the decree, someone went outside the palace to invite Chenwei from Luoyang to the palace.Half an hour later, an alchemist of unknown age and wearing a high crown entered the palace. He looked at the tortoise shell for a while, carefully read the four corners of the bronze inscriptions, and said, "Your Majesty, auspiciousness is here today. , Congratulations to Your Majesty."

Zhou Yanxi said: "What does this auspiciousness mean?"

The Fang Shi said: "Return to Your Majesty, this is an ancient Xuanwu armor, with a character engraved on each of the four corners, which are the four characters 'Zhou', 'Jin', 'Pu' and 'Qin'. The four characters are opposite to each other, and 'Jin' is opposite to 'Qin' , naturally refers to the marriage between Qin and Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period, and taking Qin and Jin's favor is the meaning of marriage. In addition, "Zhou" is the emperor's surname, and "Pu" is the surname of today's great Sima. This is a sign from heaven The Zhou family and the Pu family formed a good marriage and jointly created the righteousness of the Jing Dynasty and the prosperity of the world. If there is any disobedience, disaster may happen."

The eyes of all the officials were focused on Zhou Yan and Pu Chen. Even Qi Dai, who was always calm and calm, showed a slightly shocked expression. He stared at Pu Chen, not knowing how he would react.

Pu Chen's expression was the same as usual, so cold that it was hard to guess.He said lightly: "Your Majesty, the minister is the fate of the Seven Killing Stars. He has too much evil spirit and dare not defile the royal family."

"Da Sima's words are wrong." The alchemist said, "It is precisely because of Da Sima's evil spirit that this auspicious auspiciousness appears. Da Sima's evil spirit must be controlled by the power of heaven to become a great help to Jingchao. Da Sima Sima, this thing is a thing that fell from the sky, you must not go against the will of heaven."

Pu Chen wanted to refute, but felt that Wen Tao pulled him lightly, and said four words to him: "Think long-term."

Pu Chen knew that this matter was no small matter, so he forbears it for now, but Zhou Yan laughed and said: "No wonder, it should be here!" Zhou Yan said to Pu Chen and the alchemist, "A few years ago, I want to give marriage to Princess Nanping, but the princess refuses to accept it. The only way is that a fairy dreamed that her marriage was fixed, but the secret must not be revealed. Now it seems that the princess's marriage is actually here, and the auspiciousness has not yet appeared. It is the meaning of the undisclosed secret. Now, the will of God has been revealed, and I will marry Da Sima and my imperial sister, Princess Nanping. The princess is the eldest princess of this dynasty, and it is not an insult to the Pu family. Aiqing thinks how?"

Hearing what Zhou Yan said, all the officials present congratulated and said: "The fate of marriage is actually a sign of prosperity."

Pu Chen felt full of anger gushing out, but he couldn't get angry here, he had more important things to accomplish.He lowered his head slightly, so that everyone could not see his throat moving slightly due to anger and forbearance.Zhou Yan was waiting for his reply, and all the officials were waiting for his reply.

He finally said word by word: "Thank you Your Majesty for the marriage."

69, 69.

Luoyang Pufu.

Puchen is not permanently stationed in Luoyang, so his residence in Luoyang is not big.After returning from the ceremony of moving the capital, Pu Chen locked himself in the study room alone without seeing anyone.

Tang Yu was holding dinner, hesitating whether he should knock on the door or not, seeing Wen Tao standing in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, the afterglow of dusk hitting his face, there seemed to be a little loneliness that Tang Yu couldn't understand in his tenderness.Just as Tang Yu was about to speak, Wen Tao shook his head and made a silent gesture.Tang Yu was obedient and went back silently.If even Wen Tao didn't let him speak, then going in at this moment must be a scolding.Tang Yu didn't know how long Wen Tao had been standing in the yard, but he only knew that Wen Tao was still standing there when he passed the yard before going to bed, his shadow stretched very long by the moonlight.

What Tang Yu didn't know was that a visitor came after midnight that night.

When Wen Tao saw Qi Dai, he never thought that he would come here with a leak. Qi Dai changed into a dark robe, which was very different from usual, and his face showed a bit of sharpness in the moonlight.

"What did Da Sima say?" Qi Dai went straight to the point. There was never any politeness between him and Wen Tao. Although they were not as close as they were when they were in Guangling Academy, at least they didn't need to pretend.

Wen Tao shook his head: "I still don't want to see anyone."

During the past two or three years, Qi Dai was clearly aware of the relationship between Wen Tao and Pu Chen, and gave Wen Tao a meaningful look: "I'm going to see Da Sima."

Wen Tao nodded and led Qi Dai to Pu Chen's study.They talked for half an hour. When Qi Dai left, Pu Chen stood at the door with a sullen face and said to Wen Tao, "Come in."

Wen Tao closed the door with his backhand.In Pu Chen's study, only one candle was lit, and it flickered on and off.

"What did he say?" Wen Tao asked.

"He persuaded me to be this cheap son-in-law." Pu Chen sat down, stroked his forehead, as if he was extremely tired, "He said that His Majesty is very afraid of me now, if he does not agree to this matter, it will inevitably arouse His Majesty's suspicion. If it is done It is much easier to get in and out of the court if you become a consort, and it will be easier for you to do things later."

"Qi Dai's words are reasonable." Wen Tao said.

Pu Chen raised his eyes and stared at Wen Tao: "Why?"

Wen Tao analyzed: "First, as Qi Dai said, Your Majesty is very afraid of you. After the increase in the number of Luoyang Imperial Army and the garrison outside the city, the difficulty of our incident has increased several times. Second, after all, the eldest princess is Your Majesty's sister, even if you have not fully gained His Majesty's trust after marrying the eldest princess, it will be much easier to enter and leave Luoyang Palace, and if you want to win without a fight, the odds of winning with the palace change will be slightly higher."

Pu Chen rubbed the teacup in his hand, and the teacup knocked against the rim of the teacup, making a harsh rubbing sound.When Wen Tao weighed the pros and cons, he didn't notice that Pu Chen's complexion was getting worse and worse. At this moment, Pu Chen said coldly: "There are three or four?"

Wen Tao was stunned for a moment, Pu Chen's face was in the shadows, he could see that his complexion was not looking good, but as a counselor, he still had to finish speaking.He nodded: "Thirdly, this matter was revealed by the theory of prophecy. Regardless of whether it is true or not, if you insist on disobeying, you will violate the taboo of the world. In the future, even if you assist the king to ascend the throne, I am afraid that you will leave behind Fourth, His Majesty married the eldest princess to you because he intended to reconcile with the Pu family. You have 10,000+ soldiers and horses. ..."

With a "snap", Pu Chen knocked heavily on his teacup, staring at him and said, "Say it again. How are you and the eldest princess?"

Pu Chen's distorted face was fully exposed by the candlelight at this moment, Wen Tao opened his mouth slightly, looked at him, and didn't say another word.It's not that he didn't think that these words might anger Pu Chen, but he couldn't avoid talking about what he should say.

Wen Tao frowned, the drooping eyelids are the most touching, Pu Chen forced himself not to look at him, staring at the void and sneered, "One or two of you advised me to weigh the pros and cons, but if I want to rely on the pros and cons to weigh the pros and cons What is the difference between me and Zhou Yan if you are only able to help Dai Wang get this world with hypocrisy? You want me to marry the eldest princess, knowing that there will be a battle between us and Zhou Yan. I married her for the sake of the situation, is this what a gentleman does?"

Wen Tao's heart was shocked. He remembered the first heart-to-heart conversation between the two late at night when he first met Pu Chen in Jiankang. After defeating Beiyan, he said that he wanted to clear the Ming Dynasty and support Mingjun, so he really prepared to raise an incident and assist the acting king.In fact, he has never changed. He has been doing what he wants to do, and no one can force him to do what he doesn't want to do.

"Those who do great things don't care about small things. The eldest princess may be a victim, but it is not a crime to kill one person and live thousands of people." Wen Tao's voice came clearly, and Pu Chen looked at him. Wen Tao's eyes were wide open. It was bright, but at this moment, the light burned Pu Chen like a fire.

Pu Chen stood up with a "huh", pushed Wen Tao to the corner, leaned against him and said, "Qi Dai can say these things, others can say it, but you can't say it." There was a slight sound of friction.The huge sense of oppression reminded Wen Tao of the time when Pu Chen strangled his neck when they first met, and he couldn't help but gasp.Pu Chen stared at him for a long time, finally slammed the door and disappeared into the night.

This night, Pu Chen did not come back.

Wen Tao tossed and turned and didn't sleep well. He thought that Pu Chen would be like many nights when he dealt with military affairs in the past, no matter how late he was, he would always come back and hug him to sleep.But Pu Chen didn't come back.Wen Tao barely fell asleep until dawn, and he fell into a dream.The dream was full of joy, it was Pu Chen's big wedding, in the overwhelming joy, everyone was laughing, Zhou Yan was laughing, Qi Dai was laughing, Zhou Yu was laughing, even Pu Chen was laughing.He led a man in a hijab and a wedding dress, and waved to him, "Taotao, come here." Wen Tao stepped forward step by step, but Pu Chen didn't look at him, only smiling brightly at the newcomer beside him , he rarely smiled so heartily, Wen Tao lowered his head to see Pu Chen holding someone else's hand, just like when he held his hand many times before.He suddenly felt bursts of tearing pain spread all over his body, he was so painful that he couldn't stand up, but Puchen still didn't look at him.He wanted to call out "Apu", but the taste of rust in his throat made him unable to make a sound.Pu Chen led his bride and turned around and left. All the people surrounded them and laughed. The person Pu Chen led turned his head, lifted a corner of the hijab, and smiled contemptuously at him.He suddenly discovered that the face under the hijab turned out to be his own.